the Senate and Chamber. On Tuesday M. Poincare in the Chamber, and M. Barthou in the Senate read a Ministerial Declaration and asked for confidence. M. Peret, the new President...

The discussions in Parliament have seemed barren, but we do not regret that they took place. They confirmed the Government's readiness to perform its part of making it easy for...

L AST week we were able to record as we went to press the fall of M. Herriot's Government, which occurred even earlier, by twenty-four hours, than was expected. It fell amid...

enthusiastic, but there is obviously an increased sense of hope and confidence. Whether that will last when it is found that such a body, even if it finds and keeps harmony...

appeared on the heels of M. Herriot, and • Poineare, has certainly not made a narrow choice of Ministers from any party. His Ministry of National rnion might be called a...

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is given in the statement. This country could have been fed on wheat from the Empire and the Argentine without any American help of money or wheat. Owing to the dire...

the committee to report upon the develop. ment of co-operative selling in the coal-Mining indust ry and to make recommendations. Sir 'Frederick Lewis is to be the chairman and...

the Report stage in the House of Commons. The Government defended their action in not empowering municipal authorities to trade in coal : they would wait, at any rate, for a...

Lord Balfour of Burleigh's plea for a return to the Royal Commission's Report, Lord Cecil spoke sympathetically of the general desire for a resumption of negotiations, and the...

the words :— " No complaint has been made by Great Britain against the adverse discrimination with which she has been treated. It is recognized that the creditor is entitled to...

the nature of our financial transactions during and- immediately after the War. In our record last week of the debates in the House of Commons we barely referred to some "...

has been put forward increasingly lately, that all the trouble is due to State interference. Sir Hugh Bell has urged it in a letter to the Times, and we believe that each...

Britons and friends of America. It is with shame that we have seen lately in a part of the British Press that appeals to the less educated reader, what we can only call...

has been going on here between British and American officials in regard to the smuggling of liquor into the United States. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs gave an...

Miss BONDFIELD (Labour) .. .. 18,866 Mr. HOWARD (Conservative) .. 9,839 Mr. CURRY (Liberal) .. 4,000 'Miss Bondfield received about 1,600 more votes than were given at the...

Education gave an account of his department's work and prospects which was not exciting. Under the surface is the struggle, particularly acute now, between expanding efficiency...

elsewhere of Mr. Bernard Shaw, who is seventy. As a dramatist he will have enduring fame. His greatest value in the passing moment is as a gadfly, for his sharp wits have an...

followed in Russia by the expulsion of Zinovieff from his offices. There seems to be a mystery about Dzerzhinski's death, and it is said that he had lost his political faith and...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 100*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday...

THE APPLICATION OF THE REPORT T HE Report still holds the field. That is the essential thing to remember in the Coal Crisis, and that was " the constant influence " felt...

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T HE campaign which has been carried on by some • papers against the American Debt settlement has had the effect of making, in newspaper language, Europe's attitude to the...

BY NEW MEMBER. O N Monday, Mr. Lloyd George called attention " to the present position of the disastrous struggle in the coalfields." He began by trying to show that the...

this article was a Labour leader who at one time edited a revolutionary paper. We have found his reasoning extremely interesting, though we think his trust in evolution is...

R HADAMANTHUS :—This matter grows urgent, 0 Minos. We must find some means to persuade our Olympian father to add at the least a hundred years to the life of this mortal. For if...

I SPENT an amazing morning yesterday at Motograph - 1 - House, Upper St. Martin's Lane, with Mr. J. L. Baird, who has invented a practical way of. conveying pictures over the...

[The drawing of " Characters" is an ambitious but perhaps not a useless pastime. The delineation of character tenls.too often to-day to be merely a bit of self-revelation. We...

IN the London Society's monthly magazine I notice the following interesting suggestion, which I hope the British Broadcasting Company will adopt. A corre- spondent writes : " In...

ALCESTIS IN SUSSEX [" THE ALCESTIS " OF EURIPIDES—THE STONELAND PLAYERS.] AND so, in the end, we reached the top of the hill, three pilgrims seeking change and refreshment from...

Fon years I have seen them ; the coming of the Romans, trouble with the Druids, the inevitable arrival of Elizabeth on a white palfrey, a hospital bestowed on a too pressing...

A LETTER FROM LATVIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Independence has to be paid for. That is a lesson the people of the Baltic States are learning at some cost to them-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have been asked to give a definition, or at least my idea of a definition, of the term " Americanism." According to my understanding,...

ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS [To the Editor of, the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—It is a source of rejoicing that the vast majority of, British journals refuse to be drawn into the attempt to...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the spring of 1906 I met Mrs. Besant in Kashmir, and was told by a lady there, who knew her well, that about eight years before that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter in your issue of July 17th Mr. Fryer states that the meeting of the chief priests which decided the death of Christ took...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Charlesworth's statement that motor vehicles used in the streets to-day discharge " black and filthy partially burnt oil," and that in many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Like Miss Baker I am just at the end of my second hot season in the South Seas. I too have found thorns on the Hibiscus, but have not been...

was much interested in Lord Olivier's account of the starlings. At my - home forty miles north of Wellington we were, some years ago, much troubled with grass grubs. Then the...

Sin,—Sir Charles Oman, speaking at the Anglo-American Conference at the Institute of Historical Research, insisted on " the cataclysmic " aspect of history. " So far," he said,...

information is available as regards young offenders committed to prison for their first offence, the Home Secretary has stated that 2,227 males and 193 females aged 16-21 were...

on July 4th, with its delightful account of wayside markets in America, opens up most attractive pos- sibilities to small holders and farmers. It is satisfactory to know that...

Sne,—In reply to the letter regarding mercerization in your issue of July 17th, I would point out that what is to-day known as mercerization is a misnomer—it should have been...

our countryside are disfigured by the bottles, greasy sandwich papers and cigarette boxes left by thoughtless picnickers and trippers. The charabanc, motor- car and bicycle...

SHOPS I LIKE the people who keep shops, Busy and cheerful folk with friendly faces. They handle lovely things—bulbs, seed and flowers, China and glass and gay-backed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S111, — Will you allow me to urge in your columns the claims of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital ? This hospital is not falling down....

Tais week we gratefully acknowledge donations amounting to £85 12s. ld., bringing the total received from our readers to £467 19s. 7d. We had intended to close our Fund this...

SOME MEDIAEVAL MEMOIRS COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York . Times.] The Vespasiano Methoirs. Lives of Illustrioug Men of the Fifteenth Century. By...

LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU has sent us The New Pores, and Its Old Woods (6d.), giving a fascinating account of the thousand-year-old forces of Nature which have gone to make up...

Stories (Newnes, 2s.) of amusing information about " Old Q.," who sat on the balcony of 188 Piccadilly scanning the pretty women who passed while his groom Jack Radford waited...

who Said that reading was bad for the brain. It often is M. Jean Cocteau's recently translated A Call to Order (Faber and Gwyer, 7s. 6d.) gives us mental indigestion : it is...

con- tains some excellent illustrations and a thoroughly human text. The chapter on " How Europeans Live " is partienlarly good. Another interesting travel book is Sir Frank...

tiny set of bells fitted into the roof of her mouth and titillated them with her tongue in order to produce the astral music which so much impressed the. early Theosophists ;...

J. Arthur Thonisines Heredity (Murray, 21s.), which is a pannier and deeply interesting work on a very complex subject. In connexion' with ' the 'late BroWn-Sequard's rather...

6d.) that when she was reading aloud a harrowing dog story to her family circle, her white Pomeranian betrayed agitation and shivered and stared at her with his eyes watering. "...

poems of remarkable quality, as we might expect from this distinguished and versatile soldier. The Ballad of Hadji and the Boar is good stuff, written with an expert knowledge...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a suggestion for a new competition. THERE is one thing in particular on which we should like to know our readers' opinion. We have tried in...

by Hugh Walpole. The Rebellion of Science against Scientific Materialism : A review by Julian Huxley. Order your copy of the Spectator in advance.

MISCELLANF.OUS. -Lay Thoughts of a Dean. By W. R. Inge. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.)-The Romance of English Alms- . houses. By Mary Raphael. (Mills and Boon. "10s. 6d.) ' Scotland Yard. By...

SIR EVAN MACHONOCHIE has written a very attractive book. 1 At the close of a distinguished career in the Indian Civil t Service, every phase of which he enjoyed, he has passed...

Lay Thoughts of a Dean. By W. R. Inge. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) DEAN INCE is one of the characters of our times ; a man with his mind made up in a world of doubters. He is a bigot who...

We are asked to say that Lady Salisbury is lending the grounds. of Hatfield House for a Garden Party on August 5th, in aid of the Waifs and Strays Society. Miss Lilian...

THESE two biographies should keep alive the memories of men who might become little more than a tradition. Yet one was known to all responsible librarians of the world as a...

Wiso are the great humorists of the day ? Messrs. Wodehouse, Shaw, Jacobs, Wyndham Lewis—do any of them compare in brilliant lightness with the late H. H. Munro ? As Mr. Walpole...

THIS is a most interesting and authoritative book on modern Italy. We supposed by its modest title that Commendatore Villari knew his public in England, and we were confirmed in...

follow through this novel the lives of a German- American family of farmers.. The chief characters, August and Emma Kaetterhenry, are good, solid, respectable people, who keep...

IT has long been a commonplace of fiction, and indeed of real life, that marriage to a genius is a very trying relationship. In First Fiddle (Collins, 7s. 6d. net), the author,...

net.)—Mr. Hichens rather resembles the film impresario Mr. Cecil B. de Mille in that he is drawn irresistibly to choose imposing subjects from which to construct his stories,...

THE 'DANCING FLOOR. By John Buchan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—In his new novel Mr. John Buchan, forsaking the misty hills of Scotland—the scene of John Macnab's...

6d, net .)—" Sapper ' is not so good ink short stories as in a full-length novel ; but he still shows many of his virtues. His style is conversational and easy, his plots are...

Walter Gilbey sold his Essex farms, with farm buildings in- cluded, for the ludicrous sum of 28 an acre. The amount would not pay for half the buildings on the land. In other...

LAND FOR NOTHING. °` THE most critical harvest, perhaps, in our generation, is beginning." I quote a farmer-landowner of Norfolk, that various and original county which has...

On a charming Hertfordshire common, devoted principally to geese and a. golf links, a cross-bred spaniel has recently - discovered a peculiar gift, and his intelligence is as...

now are, is wise to attempt to grow wheat for sale. One of the most successful small farmers of my acquaintance has come through the worst period by strict adherence to the...

EUROPE'S DEBT TO AMERICA BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. MOST -people, I think, will regret the recent revival of the controversy concerning Europe's debts to the United States, although...

STEADY MARKETS. „ IT says much for the inherent strength of markets that even now, during what is usually reckoned to be one of the most stagnant weeks in the year as regards...

A good feature of the Reports of Furness, Withy and Co. is the stability shown in the matter of profits. It is true that for the past year the net profit was £523,000 against...

The firmness of high-class investment stocks is the more remarkable in view of the steady stream of fresh capital issues, and these have continued right up to the eve of the...

HEAL and Son, Ltd., have an attractive exhibition of Venetian glass, both useful and ornamental, on show at the Mansard Gallery, 196 Tottenham Court Road. Some water bowls for...

It will be remembered that as an outcome of a controversy on the Board of the British North Borneo Company a year or so ago the contentions of the majority members in favour of...